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Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Jul 12 17:21:32 2004

From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Christopher Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com> 
	of "Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:20:33 -0400."
	<29B3E16C-D430-11D8-AADC-0030657A2472@semihuman.com> 
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:20:52 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> I think depeering is a bit over the top for this situation, ...

if their customer was sucking blood from your customer, and if your peer
was taking a cut of the proceeds, would the issues be any clearer?

> I guess the big question is, is there anyone (other than those profiting
> directly from CWS) that would complain if a provider were to do such a
> thing...

looks like a psi-net "pink contract" inherited by cogent.  but since the
psi->cogent rollup was an asset sale rather than a corporate merger, cogent
probably isn't bound by that contract.  somebody needs to get on the phone,
i guess.

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